Family histories, researched & bound

A book your family will still be opening
in fifty years.

The people you came from, found in the records and written as a story — every fact sourced, every gap named, and read by you before anything is final.

Begin a conversation How we work →

Every book begins with a conversation, and is made one book at a time. "Not sure" is a fine answer.

❦

A Family Historyresearched & written

Orcas Island Press

The books

Our books

Each edition is researched in the records and written as a story — sourced, and read by you before it is final.

Most families

Family Book

A complete family history, researched in the records and written to be read by the generations after you.

Story-first chapters, every fact sourced
Maps and photo plates where the records allow
You read and review a draft first
Final PDF, plus a printed book if you'd like one

Begin a conversation

By conversation

Heritage Commission

The full commission: the same careful process behind our heirloom books, scoped with you from the start.

Talk with us first →

Branch

Cousin Edition

Your side of the family's own book — a shorter edition built from an existing family book plus focused new research.

Begin a Cousin Edition →

The making

How a book is made

1Conversation. You tell us who the book is about and what the family already knows, and we confirm the work with you before any of it begins.

2Gathering. We go into the records and the papers you share, treating online trees as leads to check, not as proof.

3Writing. The history is written as a story, every fact tied to its source, and you read the draft before anything is final.

4Binding. Your corrections are worked in, and the approved book is set as finished pages.

5Delivery. The book comes to you as a clean PDF to keep and share, and in print if you wish.

❦ ❦ ❦

Every family has a story worth getting right.